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From: mbanan@bcsaic.UUCP (Mohsen Banan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: X.500 products
Message-ID: <17079@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 17:33:14 GMT
References: <2313@ifi.uio.no> <5560044@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: mbanan@bcsaic.UUCP (Mohsen Banan)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <5560044@hpindda.HP.COM> kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) writes:
>> 1. Are there any commercially X.500 products available, besides from
>> the Retix company (DS520) and maybe Siemens (Direct.X)?
>
>Hewlett-Packard offers X.500 Directory Services in it's MAP 3.0 offering
>and is available under HP-UX 7.0.  It is not a standalone implementation- 
>rather it is used for information in the MAP context.  Since the X.500 
>Directory Services recommendation was cited by the MAP group, you may wish
>to look to MAP vendors as possible X.500 vendors as well...
>
>						kevin

It is worthwhile to point out that MAP 3.0 Directories and X.500 (blue book)
are not compatible.
They will NOT interoperate.

MAP 3.0 Directory chapter is a few years out of date.

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